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Music and Culture of WW1

by BBC Radio 3

Highlights of BBC Radio 3’s special programmes to mark the WW1 centenary. Classical music, art, literature, film, popular songs and cultural life inspired by the war.

Episodes

Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall

5m · Published 10 Jul 16:21

David Owen Norris looks at why Bechstein Hall was forced to change it's name

Gavrilo Princip's Footprints

43m · Published 29 Jun 17:45

Maria Margaronis explores the legacy of Gavrilo Princip, the Bosnian Serb whose shots sparked the Great War. His deeds, memory and legacy remain contested in the Balkans and beyond.

The Essay - Music on the Brink: London

13m · Published 10 Jan 22:30

Emma Jane Kirby considers the idea of London presenting to both the wider world and Britons themselves in 1914. And she assesses how far these attitudes still resonate today.

Modernist Moments - London

3m · Published 10 Jan 21:14

Tom Service takes a litmus test of the classical music goings-on in London in 1914 and finds Modernist Moments by native composers thin on the ground. Two songs by Frank Bridge, Where She Lies Asleep, and Love Went a-riding, written that year, tell the story.

Postcard from London

5m · Published 10 Jan 17:45

Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from London just before WW1, where Vaughan Williams seems to have caught the imagination of the city. Written by Dr Kate Kennedy

Essential Classics - London

1m · Published 10 Jan 16:57

Charles Emmerson on London, Elgar's Nimrod and the seeds of decline just beofre WW1.

Essential Classics - St Petersburg.

1m · Published 10 Jan 16:51

Historian Charles Emmerson St. Petersburg and the power of the Romanov Tsars.

Essential Classics - Berlin

3m · Published 10 Jan 16:46

Historian Charles Emmerson on how Berlin was exciting and modern before the great catastrophe about to happen.

Essential Classics - Paris

2m · Published 10 Jan 16:40

Historian Charles Emmerson on how Paris before WW1 might have felt and on Beethoven being the most performed composer.

Essential Classics - Vienna

1m · Published 10 Jan 16:29

Historian Charles Emmerson on how high tradition and modernity collide just before WW1.

Music and Culture of WW1 has 27 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 6:18:32. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 23rd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on February 8th, 2024 06:38.